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Author: Higgins, Joseph

Biography:

HIGGINS, Joseph (fl 1819)

Higgins was identified on the title-page of his only known publication as a “layman of the Church of England,” which might signify no more than that he was a member of a congregation but often refers to someone who assisted in the service of worship but was not an ordained clergyman. He does not claim any other title (such as BA) and his name does not appear in lists of university alumni. The Monthly Review damned the poem as “indecent,” “profane babbling,” and containing “audacities of devotion.” Apart from advertisements in the Oxford Journal and Blackwood’s no further trace of him has been found. Even if he was a Londoner there are too many eligible parish baptisms and burials to choose from. (MR 91 [1820] 434-5)  

 

 

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